North West Company Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/north-west-company/ Arts, Culture and Lifestyle from Calgary Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:45:14 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calgaryguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-CalgaryGuardian_Logo_FaviconApp-32x32.jpg North West Company Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/north-west-company/ 32 32 Historic Photographs of Fort Chipewyan https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photographs-fort-chipewyan/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 07:44:52 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=20835 The North West Trading Company established a trading post on the southwest corner of Lake Athabasca in 1788. This post, named Fort Chipewyan after the Chipewyan people who were first living there, is the oldest [...]

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]]> Vintage Photographs from Rocky Mountain House https://calgaryguardian.com/vintage-photos-rocky-mountain-house/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:30:41 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=12933 The Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, competing fur-trade entities, both established trading posts in 1799 near the confluence of the North Saskatchewan and Clearwater Rivers, in what became known as Rocky Mountain [...]

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